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Windows Remote Desktop breaks Alt + Tab in Fullscreen
I'm RDPing from Windows 7 to Windows XP. The client machine has two monitors. I want to have the RDP session full screened on Monitor 2, with the client machine's Windows 7 living on Monitor 1. I also want to be able to "escape" from the RDP session without using the mouse. The RDP and tabs let you…
What is the best MTA setup for a home/laptop computer (*not* server)?
What is a good MTA (e.g. Postfix or something else) setup for a home computer behind a NAT, or a laptop that is not always online? I've read a lot of Postfix tutorials on how to set it up this way or that, but they are usually geared towards computers that are servers ie they have a static IP have …
Why is notepad++ blocking my autohotkey shortcuts?
I have a series of keyboard shortcuts defined in my autohotkey script. Currently, none of them work whenever notepad++ has focus. The script is loaded as usual. The keyboard shortcuts (mostly stuff for moving windows around) work perfectly with any other window, they just don't do anything if the n…
should case fans blow air into or out of the case
Well there's not really much more to ask than the title, so which way should fans blow?
My MacBook is a Battery Denier
I have a four year old MacBook rev 1,1 (the original Intel Core Duo). Just recently it has begun denying the existence of its battery while still happily running unplugged. I get the X battery icon which claims "No Batteries Available". It is a fairly recent replacement battery and coconutBattery r…
How to stop downloading of a streaming video
This is a problem I have in my mind for a long time and now I want to ask Super Users. I often watch streaming videos on various video sharing sites and Facebook. I click on the "Play" button on the relevant online player, and video starts to load and starts to play after a short while. The problem…
Hidden files in Disk Usage Analyzer
How do I get Ubuntu's "Disk Usage Analyzer" to show me the hidden files? It tells me my home dir uses 3GB, but only accounts for 525MB (the results of ). Can I get it to show me the other files that are using the space?
View cookies : Keyboard shortcut? Extension?
While developing a web app, I need to check what cookies the site sent to browser (Chrome), so "Customize > Options > Under the hood > Content Settings > Cookies > Show cookies and other site data" is too many clicks. I haven't found a keyboard shortcut to get to that page. If there's none, do you …
How can I run something as Administrator via Cygwin's SSH?
I'm trying to connect to a remote Windows 7 box that needs a setup change or two. I've got access to an Administrator account via Cygwin's SSH server, but Cygwin won't let me run Administrator-privilege utilities ("The requested operation requires elevation (Run as administrator.)") The standard so…
How do I completely remove and reinstall Samba on Debian?
My Samba installation has become a mess, and now the services won't even start correctly anymore, for some reason. Is there a way to completely remove Samba, as if it was never there, and then reinstall it so I can have a fresh setup?
Is there a tool to convert VHD images to VDI images?
I saw the response for converting VDI images into VHD images, but I want to do the opposite conversion - is there a tool to do this?
How "legal" is site-scraping using cURL?
Recently I was experimenting with the cURL, and I found lot is possible with it. I built a small script that crawls a musical site, which plays online songs. On the way of my experiment, I found that it is possible to crawl the song source also.. (that site doesn't provides downloading). I just wha…
How to change virtual screen resolution on Ubuntu (connecting via VNC without real display connected)?
I have an Ubuntu server with no physical access to it, only via ssh/vnc. It is stuck on a 1680x1050 resolution and in the system display settings the menus are disabled since there is no detected real display connected. I need to lower the resolution to e.g. 800x600. When I try: I'm getting: The re…
ALWAYS display the last / default user Windows 7 welcome screen
I have three user accounts on a Windows 7 machine: share, admin and standard. I only want the standard account to appear on the welcome screen. I know about the special accounts/user list registry edit. Unfortunately, that removes the account from the UAC elevated privilege dialog box. I would not …
How do I find a phrase/word recursively in a file tree in Linux?
how do I find a phrase/word recursively in a file tree in Linux? I tried and I tried
Keystroke to maximize along the vertical only in Windows 7?
You can maximize a window in Windows 7 using the Win+↑ keystroke. You can also maximize the window along the vertical by double-clicking the upper or lower bits of the window chrome of a "normal" window. But is there a keystroke to achieve the vertical maximize?
What's the keyboard shortcut to unhide a column in Excel 2010?
My Shift key doesn't appear to be broken, so this one's got me stumped: Looking online, I've been told the keyboard shortcuts for hiding and unhiding columns in Excel are Ctrl+0 and Ctrl+Shift+0, respectively. The former of these works for me in Excel 2010, but for some reason the unhide shortcut d…
Awk doesn't work when inside double quotes
This command doesn't work: Above ignores the command . I think it might be because of the double quotes? Also, how would I add another set of double quotes inside the awk? ie: I tried escaping the quotes, I even tried this: without success.
How do I stop Open Office from automatically changing the date format?
I am trying to enter a date in a document with the following format: However, OpenOffice insists on changing it to: I've looked in the AutoCorrect options and elsewhere and have been unable to find a way to disable this annoying behaviour. Any suggestions?
Which config files should be used for setting bash environment variables?
As I asked and got answers in here, and here, the PATH variable has different path names depending on how the app is activated. Which setup files (.bashrc, .profile, ...) should be used to have the same PATH variable no matter how I start the software with bash?